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This week we roll out our first monthly patch. This patch will the first of many to address performance, fix bugs and add new content to the game. I must stress that we will not be able to fix all performance issues with a single patch. For this patch, we focused on stabilizing performance for all users, trying to ensure there would be less FPS drops, and improve performance for those with lower spec systems. Optimizing the game will take us time, and will continue all through early access, so please have patience while we work to improve the game experience for all players.

We are opening a Test Server to better manage our updates and ensure stability before we push the update to the Live Servers. We will push each new update to this server on the Wednesday of the week, to allow a full days testing before updating the live servers. We will have the exact time you should expect this server to be online tomorrow, so stay tuned to our Twitter!

We are aware that some of you are experiencing what appear to be memory leaks, and we will work on fixing this going forward, but over the last month, we have been concentrating on improving the performance for min spec systems, and stabilizing FPS for everyone no matter what their PC specs. We are still a relativity small team, so we must focus on one problem at a time right now. We are working to expand the team, but finding the right people with suitable experience and capabilities takes time, so please bear with us.

Next I must address a slight price change for the game in New Zealand. We’ve been seeing some abnormal patterns in our New Zealand sales. It turns out that due to the comparatively low price in New Zealand (roughly US$25) and the fact that gifting from New Zealand to other countries is not restricted the same as it is for other countries like China, Russia and Brazil, people seem to be exploiting the system. We have slightly raised the price to US$28 to combat this.

I also want to address server lag once again. The lag you experience on the servers is not due to the hardware or size of the server, nor does it have to do with the number of players online. It is due to a networking issue with the core engine code, and it is something we are working hard to resolve, but it is not a simple issue to fix, so it will take us some time. Please bear with us and we will get it fixed as soon as we can.

Finally, before we get to the patch-notes for this month’s update, I want to once again thank everyone for their support over the past month. We broke 100,000 concurrent users on Monday which is a huge milestone for any game and we wouldn’t have done this without the tremendous support of every player, so from all team here, a sincere thank you.

This patch will be deployed for both clients and servers Thursday, April 20, 5PM KST/1AM PDT/8AM UTC and is expected to take approx. 1 hour to complete.

Early Access - Month 1 - Patch Notes

Known issues

The motorbike leans slightly to the right when being driven straight.

The tires of the motorbike cannot be shot out at the moment

Non-English Players] There are some mistranslated in-game texts and they will be shown in English

Client Performance Improvements

Made some improvements to address the issue of FPS drops when opening the inventory UI

Reduced the load on the CPU through instance rendering so that the GPUs can function to their full capabilities

Made improvements to address the issue of FPS severely dropping when in the vicinity of Yasnaya, Polyana & Georgopol

Rendering performance on PCs with minimum system requirements has been improved

Graphic performance and quality on PCs with minimum system requirements has been improved

Server Performance Improvements

Performance improvements have been made with relation to the items spawned in the world

Content Updates

Added Vector SMG. A very powerful SMG most appropriate for short to mid-range combat that is spawned in the world

Added Motorbike w/ sidecar. A sidecar-less version will be added in a future update

Added a 2X Aimpoint scope

Added a Ballistic Mask

Added 3 new color variations for the Dacia

Added the crossbow back into the game

World

Adjusted the density of environmental elements to be identical across all graphic options

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